The mountain is no longer a friend to the Kurds. How do northern villages survive under Turkish army bombardment?
Rashid Sofi reports from Duhok's border villages, where Turkish shelling and drone strikes have burned orchards, closed schools and emptied whole communities.
The Fragility of Peace: Turkish military expansion and limited positive outcomes for displaced villages
CPT documents how Turkey's bases and roads keep expanding in Iraqi Kurdistan despite peace talks, with more than 1,190 villages affected and few able to return.
The UNESCO Site That Never Was
Durrie Bouscaren asks what the drowning of Hasankeyf by the Ilisu Dam, displacing mostly Kurdish residents, reveals about whose heritage gets protected.
Turkey’s Other Weapon Against the Kurds: Water
Alexandra Marvar shows how Turkey's dam programme, from Ilisu to the drowning of Hasankeyf, has become a tool of power over Kurds and downstream neighbours.
Re-assessing the Genocide of Kurdish Alevis in Dersim, 1937-38
Dilşa Deniz argues that the Turkish state's killings and deportations in Dersim in 1937-38 were genocide, and traces how that genocide is still denied.